Need an unusual but nice boys name...

[Sophiemck95]

I'm due a baby boy in July 2017, but am really struggling to find a name I actually like. I want a strong, unusual name that nobody really has but it's proving difficult. Somebody please help. My boyfriend doesn't like Leo, Carter or Hugo. Please help me I'm driving myself mad lol

Lobster - you'd pronounce it Gabe-rille instead of the female version which would be Gab-riel

Eustice
Jimtom

Dougray

Gil

Magellan
Miles
Nile/s
Fabian
Julius
Julian
StJohn
Ignatius (Nate/Iggy)

Heath
Ivor
Tristan
Nathaniel (Nate)
Félix
Bertie
Robert (Bobbie)
Walter
Wilbur
Edmund
Fergus
Fitzgerald
Montgomery (monty)

As all your names are not unusual in this slightest, they are run of the mill and boring, there are 10000s of men walking round with them which makes them usual not unusual. The fact no babies have been called them is because they are everywhere and also rather dull
meettherussians you have a point here. But amongst his peers the boy would stand out. And in the 20 years whilst the David's of this world age and fade from view his name would become rarer and even unusual so will become the only bloke in the office/team with the name (which, unusually, everyone can spell and pronounce).

I think we are having issues with interpreting the term unusual. As a fan of unusual names in the same sense I think the OP also meant- lets make this clear- the words unusual is defined as=

not habitually or commonly occurring or done (the way some people who don't seem to get it on here are interpreting it)
and/or
remarkable or interesting because different from or better than others (= a quirky, individual name in its own right that is opposite to plain names like David or Chris),

David and Chris might not be popular for babies/children of this generation. But they are still common, average names heard everywhere everyday for 10000s of men, and are not "unsual", different, quirky names in their own right.

However centuries continue without Dave, John or Chris not being used for babies names, they will never sound unusual/special/different, they will always sound boring and dull.

Guy

But one generation's quirky name becomes the next generations common and old fashioned (often, not always obviously)

Paul.
John.
Peter.
Bill.
Kevin.
Wayne (met a Wayne yesterday and realised I hadn't met one since the seventies).
These are the uncommon unusual names now.
I know two Arlos!

I should have read the thread.
'unusual' names are common now - when i read through the list of names at my kid's music concerts (leafy suburb) it's tristrams and venetia's and arlos and kitty's and gabriel and rafferty's and Eva's and Ava's and Gregory and Leo and Felix and raphael.
Also unusual names sound extremely posh. Which is fine, if that's what you want but they're more than just 'unusual names', they are social markers.

rafferty my own fave.

Magnus, Marius, Espen, Victor, Leon,

Adrian
Benson
Laurence
Abel
Aubrey
Jesse

Adrian
Benson
Laurence
Abel
Aubrey
Jesse

The popular names from a few decades ago - really unusual now!

David
John
Michael
Robert
Richard
Philip
Mark
Paul
Peter
Brian
Timothy
Gary

Ha ha - I am loving the turn this thread has taken and am kind of on the fence about whether popular 1970s names can be classed as 'unusual' on the basis that they will likely be the only one in their peer group despite there being millions of men with these names in their 40s, 50s, 60s etc

The reality is that some of the names being suggested as being 'unusual' - Jude, Leo, Arlo, Milo, Rafferty aren't that unusual at all and are just the current generation of names like Stuart, Gavin, Adrian, Wayne from the 1970s (i.e. less of them Thomas, James, Harry, Jack, Sam etc but still lots of the about!

40 years down the line I'm not sure anyone really cares. I doubt all the Daves, Johns & Davids feel an inferiority complex to their mates Jason & Graham!

Hudson

I know what you mean shagged. I like 'unusual' (using term loosely) names like Rafferty, Milo, Arlo etc, but I do wonder if they will date badly and become the next generation's Wayne, Ian or Gavin (no offence intended to anyone named Wayne etc).

Sorry, that's^^ really nothing to do with the OP!

Atlas

My cousins have quite unusual names: Jordan Chandler, Joshua Rome, Billy Blue & India Rose.

My list for a boy is: Rocky Jacob, Kenickie Milo, Rory Junior (after hubby), Arlo Jaxon, Cole, Darcy Cole.... I like these as they go with my husband's surname :)

Atticus